" Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats. "

― Karl Jacoby , Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation